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    "id": 700947,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kaluma",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1565,
        "legal_name": "George Peter Opondo Kaluma",
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    "content": "We cannot, as an institution and organ of Government, be sitting through these approval processes as if these values and principles of governance were just put in the Constitution to decorate the document. They have real meaning. As a State organ, we must ensure that whatever we are doing and whenever we are doing it, we are alive to that fact. Looking at all appointments before I speak about this one - and which this House has been approving since we started sitting - I do not know whether we are aware we are a State organ and, therefore, obligated to uphold the values in Article 10 or we believe ours is just to do the work of a conveyer belt. Consistently, persons with disability are ordinarily entitled up to 5 per cent of positions of service in the Public Service, progressively. They are getting nothing and we do not question why. Particular institutions of Government have become a preserve of particular communities. This is more so under the Jubilee Government. My hope is that the President of the country, being the youngest we have had, will be taking his time thinking of creating a nation for over 50 years to come; a nation for the future, not a nation in which when you get the instruments of power, you think of who are from your village to protect you in that power. That is the reason we have these provisions. If you look at these appointments, we already know the Governor of the Central Bank of Kenya is from Central Kenya. Why would you have the Governor from Central Kenya in a list where you will be having a total of only six people and then you have another Nelius W. Kariuki there? There is nobody from Ukambani. It is an ethnic issue. There is nobody from Nyanza - actually the entire Nyanza. It is an issue. There is nobody from the entire Western Kenya. Are those communities being left out of important Public Service positions because they are associated with the Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (CORD) or what is the reason? Do you cease to belong to a Government and, therefore, have your opportunities to fill these places simply because you belong to another party which did not form the Government? We have gladly said that we all belong to this Government but, there is a scheme in which you see, gradually, the exclusion of particular communities from important public sectors. It is at the risk of even having quacks filling up those positions."
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